SUNY Subpoenaed In Cuomo Buffalo Billion Investigation

ALBANY - U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is subpoening a State University of New York research facility as part of a probe into Gov. Cuomo's much-ballyhooed "Buffalo Billion" economic development plan, the Daily News has learned.

SUNY Polytechnic Institute, which is headed by the politically-connected Dr. Alain Kaloyeros, received subpoenas seeking documents and other information in recent months, sources familiar with the probe said.

In addition, the SUNY system has hired a criminal defense lawyer to represent SUNY Polytechnic Institute before Bharara's office, the sources said.

Bharara is looking into the contracts awarded for projects to build high tech businesses in economically-struggling Buffalo to see if any bid-rigging or other shenanigans took place, sources said. -

The Daily News reports Kaloyeros has ties to both Cuomo and former Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver.